[Damages in the field of ENT caused by ecocatastrophes (author's transl)]

It will be pointed out that the physical accident - compared with the chemical accident - caused by ecocatastrophes in our industrial society, due to the progress in physics and chemistry, plays a minor role concerning a possible damage in the field of ENT. However the chemical accident is dangerous for the inner ear and especially for the infant inner ear, because 1. the lack of oxygen in the blood can cause lasting hearing defects particularly of the babies and infants and 2. all ferrihaemoglobin producers damage the inner ear of babies and infants on account of their undeveloped reducing substances for ferrihaemoglobin. After having tried to point out that, especially in the utilization of synthetic material and in the colourproduction during synthesis very much basic substances are used, which, when vaporized can lead to a ferrihaemoglobin production, it is possible that many cases of infant hearing-loss, up to now not explainable, are caused by such substances.